We are ready to cheer on our 2️⃣0️⃣ FRC teams that are moving on to the #REBUILT playoffs here in Houston!
Watch from home on the FRC YouTube page; there's a New England team still going strong in every division! 🙌
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Last but not least, congratulations to our 32 #FIRSTRoboticsCompetition teams representing New England in #REBUILT to end the FIRST AGE season! 🦾
We've seen amazing performances by these robots all yesterday and today. Who will move on to the playoffs in the morning? Who will make it to EINSTEIN??
We can't wait to find out... ⌛
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Congratulations to our 15 #FIRSTTechChallenge teams representing New England in #DECODE to end the FIRST AGE season! 🧡
👀 Swipe to check out the robots to watch for the rest of today and tomorrow!
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Congratulations to our 7 #FIRSTLEGOLeague Challenge and 1 Explore team representing every New England state in #UNEARTHED to end the FIRST AGE season!
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Our weekend at The Big E wasn't just the biggest FIRST Robotics Competition event in New England....it was the biggest FIRST Tech Challenge event too!!
The only Premier Event scheduled before the FIRST Championship, the second annual New England Premier Event featured 56 teams across two divisions
One of the division namesakes, Alix Martin, was able to join us for the start of the event this year!
Congratulations to top event winners:
INGENUITY
✨ Winners + Martin Division Champions: FTC 16965, SUPERCRITICAL from Redmond, WA and FTC 22345, SURFACE from Exeter, NH
✨ Finalists + Crock Division Champions: FTC 32385, MIGHTY MOJO from Punta Gorda, FL and FTC 18438, Wolfpack Machina from Beverly, MA
MARTIN DIVISION
✨ Inspire Award: FTC 18442, Gear Rotation from Sykesville, MD
✨ 2nd Place: FTC 252, Electric Quahogs from Providence, RI
✨ 3rd Place : FTC 21689, Team Tesseract from Nashua, NH
CROCK DIVISION
✨ Inspire Award: FTC 3526, Marlbots from Los Angeles, CA
✨ 2nd Place: FTC 12589, Pioneer Robotics from Shrewsbury, MA
✨ 3rd Place: FTC 10331, ARC Hailstorm from Andover, MA
Check out ftc.events for all award winners and nefirst.org/photos for all photos!
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Congratulations to our New England District Championship INGENUITY award winners:
Woodie Flowers Finalist Awards:
✨ Kyle Herren from FRC 1071
✨ Michelle Leach from FRC 5112
FIRST Leadership Finalist Awards:
✨ Charlotte L. from FRC 8626
✨ Everett H. from FRC 172
✨ Auritro D. from FRC 999
✨ Abinaya A. from FRC 2342
✨ Evelyn B. from FRC 4905
✨ Parnitha K. from FRC 190
Volunteer of the Year:
✨ Manisha Rajaghatta, Senior Voice, FRC Alum + Mentor
FIRST Impact Awards:
✨ FRC 6328: Mechanical Advantage
✨ FRC 195: The CyberKnights
✨ FRC 4905: Andromeda One
✨ FRC 131: CHAOS
Engineering Inspiration Awards:
✨ FRC 178: The 2nd Law Enforcers
✨ FRC 999: MechaRAMS
Rookie All-Star Award:
✨ FRC 11269: Batteries Not Included
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Congratulations to our award winners from the New England District Championship Burns Division presented by GlobalFoundries!🏆
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Congratulations to our award winners from the New England District Championship Newsom Division presented by GE Aerospace!🏆
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As we gear up to cheer on 5️⃣5️⃣ FIRST teams from New England in Houston next week, check out the full recap of the New England District Championship!
📝nefirst.org/blog
📸 nefirst.org/photos
One of our field namesakes, Dr. Bonnie Newsom joined us to bring artifacts from the @university.of.maine Climate Change Institute into our Expo. We were able to recognize her contributions during our Saturday Opening Ceremony and present her with a framed rendering of the field bearing her name!
Special thanks to our event speakers representing NE FIRST sponsors, for joining us throughout the weekend's ceremonies:
✨ Christine Miska, FIRST mentor and engineering director for @baesystemsinc
✨ Dan Shelley, Rutland Plant Manager at @ge_aerospace
We're ready to celebrate our division and event winners as we countdown the days to #FIRSTCHAMPS!
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That's a WRAP on REBUILT in New England! ⌛
For the fifth year in a row, NE FIRST returned to The Big E for our weekend-long robotics showcase featuring all FIRST programs together on one fairground. For the FIRST AGE season, 💯 FRC teams in two divisions competed like crazy to see who would take home the title of New England District Champions!
All six New England states were represented, battling it out to see who would earn one of 32 qualifying spots at the FIRST Championship in Houston, Texas, next week 🤠
Our end-of-season celebration would not have been possible without the efforts of nearly 300 incredible volunteers, whether they planned for months for a great team experience or they held field and pit roles to make everything run smoothly all weekend.
Check out some of our photos from last Wednesday load in and Thursday's kickoff to qualification matches...stay tuned for our recap of the entire weekend this week! 📸
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We're not counting down the days to just one event next weekend. We're ready for TWO culminating competitions for FIRST Robotics Competition and FIRST Tech Challenge!
Today we celebrate the inspiration for our second annual New England Premier Event Divisions: MARTIN and CROCK!
We brought the tradition of naming divisions after New England STEM leaders that embody the seasonal theme to the New England Premier Event last year! For FIRST AGE, we are inspired by:
🔍 Dr. Alix Martin, an archaeologist at Strawbery Banke Museum in Portsmouth, maintaining the museum’s collection of over one million archaeological artifacts. She is also a faculty fellow in anthropology at University of New Hampshire.
Dr. John Gordon Crock, archaeologist specializing in pre-Contact northeastern North America and the pre-Columbian Caribbean. He currently teaches at University of Vermont and is the Director of their Consulting Archaeology Program.
Winners of the MARTIN Division and the CROCK Division will once again face off on INGENUITY field to become New England Champions!
We are thrilled to honor those who bring the past to life at the New England Premier Event at The Big E next weekend!
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